Hello everyone,
I just want to share my opinion and experience after purchasing MDC and using it 5 times. First of all, I want to share a little background: I have used a lot of the best rated and highly regarded soaps including:
MWF
Mikes Natural Soaps
Tiki Tallow
Tiki Vegan
Maggard Tallow
HTGAM CAD 2.0
Petal Pusher Fancies
Barrister & Mann Tallow
Loccitance Cade
Art of Shaving Soap
Soap Commander
Cella
Razorock XXX Tallow
Haslinger Schafmilch
Stirling
Cold River Soap Works Select
Strop Shoppe with Tallow
Catie's Bubbles (French Style)
LA Shaving Soap
Dapper Dragon (Vegan)
After owning that many soaps, its pretty hard for me to find a specific soap that rises above the rest (since most of those soaps are really incredible). As additional info, prior to trying MDC, my top 5 would look like this:
1. Mike's Natural Soap
2. MWF
3. Catie's Bubbles
4. Tiki (Tallow or vegan, I get same performance)
5. Barrister & Mann
Now onto MDC. This soap was very easy to lather right from the first go with it. Even more so, the lather seems "different" than any other soap for some reason. What I mean is, the lather is thicker, but without getting dry (which I think accounts for the acclaimed cushion and slickness of this soap). I can definitely feel such a difference when im using this soap, especially in razor glide. It just feels effortless and without any irritation. The cushion? Oh boy, this is the thickest lather I have been able to generate from any soap, ever! Today was my 5th shave, and I felt I was cheating, it wasn't a challenge at all to shave with this soap, it is THAT good, my friends. I feel is really hard to get nicks with this soap, as the superior slide prevents the vast majority of them from occurring. And last but no least, the post shave feel after 1 hour, is just plain incredible. You would swear this had tallow, lanolin, kokum butter and shea butter on it, but it doesn't. I don't know how is this company able to achieve this kind of post shave feel with such a simple ingredients list (really crushes my mind!).
Of course everything has its drawbacks, which in this case is the price. I live in Puerto Rico and paid 65 dollars for the Unscented version (200gm). Indeed, I could've bought 4 artisan soaps for the price of MDC, but I needed to try this highly acclaimed soap (and I'm so glad I did). As you can guess, it has risen to my #1 spot, by a wide margin. Only other soap that has almost all the qualities of MDC, I would have to say, is Mike's Natural Soaps. In this case, Mikes can be considered a great bargain, considering you get like 90-95% of the performance of MDC for 25% of the price. Of couse my top 5, now looks like this:
1. Martin de Candre
2. Mike's Natural Soap
3. MWF
4. Catie's Bubbles
5. Tiki
I will be buying other soaps (as I think I might have soap acquistion disorder, or so says my wife). I need to try Shannon Soaps, Wickham Soaps, and some others, But it will be really hard to move MDC from the #1 spot.
Please share if you have been through similar experiences with MDC and what soaps are similar to MDC (if any).
Regards,
Heriberto
I just want to share my opinion and experience after purchasing MDC and using it 5 times. First of all, I want to share a little background: I have used a lot of the best rated and highly regarded soaps including:
MWF
Mikes Natural Soaps
Tiki Tallow
Tiki Vegan
Maggard Tallow
HTGAM CAD 2.0
Petal Pusher Fancies
Barrister & Mann Tallow
Loccitance Cade
Art of Shaving Soap
Soap Commander
Cella
Razorock XXX Tallow
Haslinger Schafmilch
Stirling
Cold River Soap Works Select
Strop Shoppe with Tallow
Catie's Bubbles (French Style)
LA Shaving Soap
Dapper Dragon (Vegan)
After owning that many soaps, its pretty hard for me to find a specific soap that rises above the rest (since most of those soaps are really incredible). As additional info, prior to trying MDC, my top 5 would look like this:
1. Mike's Natural Soap
2. MWF
3. Catie's Bubbles
4. Tiki (Tallow or vegan, I get same performance)
5. Barrister & Mann
Now onto MDC. This soap was very easy to lather right from the first go with it. Even more so, the lather seems "different" than any other soap for some reason. What I mean is, the lather is thicker, but without getting dry (which I think accounts for the acclaimed cushion and slickness of this soap). I can definitely feel such a difference when im using this soap, especially in razor glide. It just feels effortless and without any irritation. The cushion? Oh boy, this is the thickest lather I have been able to generate from any soap, ever! Today was my 5th shave, and I felt I was cheating, it wasn't a challenge at all to shave with this soap, it is THAT good, my friends. I feel is really hard to get nicks with this soap, as the superior slide prevents the vast majority of them from occurring. And last but no least, the post shave feel after 1 hour, is just plain incredible. You would swear this had tallow, lanolin, kokum butter and shea butter on it, but it doesn't. I don't know how is this company able to achieve this kind of post shave feel with such a simple ingredients list (really crushes my mind!).
Of course everything has its drawbacks, which in this case is the price. I live in Puerto Rico and paid 65 dollars for the Unscented version (200gm). Indeed, I could've bought 4 artisan soaps for the price of MDC, but I needed to try this highly acclaimed soap (and I'm so glad I did). As you can guess, it has risen to my #1 spot, by a wide margin. Only other soap that has almost all the qualities of MDC, I would have to say, is Mike's Natural Soaps. In this case, Mikes can be considered a great bargain, considering you get like 90-95% of the performance of MDC for 25% of the price. Of couse my top 5, now looks like this:
1. Martin de Candre
2. Mike's Natural Soap
3. MWF
4. Catie's Bubbles
5. Tiki
I will be buying other soaps (as I think I might have soap acquistion disorder, or so says my wife). I need to try Shannon Soaps, Wickham Soaps, and some others, But it will be really hard to move MDC from the #1 spot.
Please share if you have been through similar experiences with MDC and what soaps are similar to MDC (if any).
Regards,
Heriberto
